Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - Posts
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Daniel Edwards—the celebrity-obsessed sculptor who has already blessed the world with Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug and Suri Cruise’s bronzed poop—has just announced his latest work: A statue of Angelina Jolie,
enthroned, majestically nude, and suckling a baby at each breast like
it ain’t no thang. Weird? Sick? Magnificent? I can’t really tell ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
It looks like the war on terror might not reshape just how Americans fight overseas, but also how academics fight in the classroom. Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy has been writing about the influx of vets who served in Iraq and Afghanistan into Middle Eastern studies programs in the United States. Lynch's remarks hint at a fear among some academics that this new wave of presumably pro-government, pro-gun students might shift international studies departments to the right ... (Read more in Double X.)
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This New York Times article
about men being raped in the Congo is one of the most unsettling I've
read in a long while. This one scene alone should linger in your mind
for days ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Did anyone who watched Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s arrival in Burbank this morning not
cry? Though the reunion of Lee and her daughter, Hannah, was the
bigtime tearjerker, for all the obvious, poignant,
mommy-daughter-love-runs-deep reasons, there was another quieter moment
that had me dripping tears into my cheerios ... (Read more in Double X.)